Precious Few Words On Sam Raimi’s Crimewave
I now count myself among the small number of people who have seen Sam Raimi’s second film, Crimewave (’85), the follow-up to his surprise success Evil Dead, written with Joel […]
I now count myself among the small number of people who have seen Sam Raimi’s second film, Crimewave (’85), the follow-up to his surprise success Evil Dead, written with Joel […]
“That homey’s dead. He just don’t know it yet.”
Are the zombies in World War Z even zombies? Or merely disease-carrying jerks? Nerds across interwebworld are arguing the finer points. I’m afraid those on both sides of the argument […]
In his hospital room, Walt stares at a watercolor on the wall: a man in a rowboat pushes away from shore, his family waving to him.
Say! Look at that! A small piece of cheese has been discarded on the sidewalk. You know what that means, don’t you? Surely you know how to “read cheese,” as […]
The first two episodes of Breaking Bad’s second season are one hell of a wild ride. Nothing in season 1 is this intense. The show takes off running and doesn’t stop.
In these last two episodes of the short first season, Walt takes his first stab at becoming a somebody in the drug business. He comes by a new look, a new name, and a new meth recipe. But it doesn’t come easy.
Has there ever been a good Superman movie? I’m beginning to think not. I have a fondness from days of yore for the first two Christopher Reeve versions, but they […]
“I’m thinking Albuquerque might just have a new kingpin.”
There’s nothing exceptionally bad about This Is The End. There’s nothing exceptionally good about it either. It’s got just enough laughs to offset its thinly thought-out story, so when it […]
If there’s one thing we’ve got here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., it’s roads. Roads and freedom, the two things we’ve got in America. Or at least the […]
The southwest American desert. A blue sky. A pair of pants, fluttering to earth. So begins Breaking Bad’s pilot episode, and what an episode. Just shy of an hour, and it lays out a roadmap for everything that follows.
Steven Spielberg is a peculiar figure in the history of movie directors. He started out as a well-reviewed wunderkind, was then castigated by critics for years as an unserious director […]
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]